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DISHEARTENING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does disheartening mean?
• DISHEARTENING (adjective)
The adjective DISHEARTENING has 1 sense:
1. destructive of morale and self-reliance
Familiarity information: DISHEARTENING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Destructive of morale and self-reliance
Synonyms:
demoralising; demoralizing; disheartening; dispiriting
Similar:
discouraging (depriving of confidence or hope or enthusiasm and hence often deterring action)
Context examples
“I am sorry to say,” said I, “that I have some rather disheartening intelligence from my aunt.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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"From children and drunks will you hear the truth." (Danish proverb)